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This is from a brief press availability the president gave this morning with Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin …

There’s a lot of people in the world who don’t believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and self-govern. I reject that. I reject that strongly. I believe that people who practice the Muslim faith can self-govern. I believe that people whose skins aren’t necessarily — are a different color than white can self-govern.

There is so much that is wrong-headed and dishonorable in this repeated invocation — an implicit, churlish claim that the only reason to oppose him is racism — that it is hard to know where to start.

Hey, just when you think Bush can’t sink any lower, he always manages to prove you wrong.